Note that this is not what's been discussed in the reddit thread (but rather if it's practical).

Anyway, it's not yet production ready, for most values of "production" that you can come up with.

I do occasionally solve problems in Perl 6 where it's much better suited than Perl 5, but usually when I want something stable that will still work in 2 years without any maintenance, I use Perl 5.

Rakudo is now in need of early adopters to shake out bugs, and to tell the developers which areas need the most work to become "production ready" (which can mean a whole lot of different things depending on othe use case).

So, people are using perl6 code at this time? And, if so what are the results? I am wondering are the people who upgrade perl 5 working on perl 6 as well? It just seems it is taking an extremely long time 10 plus years to come out with a production usable version. Second, it seems there has been every excuse in the world on the site as to reasons why this version or a delay occurs every month. Maybe some other open source people should assist with finishing up a production version of perl6?

am wondering are the people who upgrade perl 5 working on perl 6 as well?

Most developers either work on Perl 5 or Perl 6 - both take up tremendous amounts of time, and since the code bases don't overlap all that much, there's no good reason for developers to work on both.

It just seems it is taking an extremely long time 10 plus years to come out with a production usable version.

It is. Because Perl 6 has extremely high demands on compiler writers.

Second, it seems there has been every excuse in the world on the site as to reasons why this version or a delay occurs every month.

I've mostly seen reasons, not excuses.

Let me make this perfectly clear: There's no reason why any Perl 6 developer should excuse himself or herself for not having finished something you'd like to see - we're all volunteers. And nobody wants to see Perl 6 "done" more than those people actually working on it.

Maybe some other open source people should assist with finishing up a production version of perl6?

I'd really love to see that. But attracting contributors isn't as easy as saying "maybe somebody else should assist".

If you have any idea how that might be accomplished, I'm eager to hear.

It's pretty clear who the main people are here.
Maybe it's also a problem of competency. Maybe they don't master all the elements needed to write a language. I don't know. But I'm 100% there are reasons for Perl6 not being production-ready yet.

What is interesting to note is that these people are carrying out unpaid work. That means they have fragmented time slices which are used to implement Perl6. Again that's something very important. Also, because it's unpaid work, maybe it's not taken very seriously and the mentality of the whole project is something like yeah, we got this experiment going, and it's going to continue to be an experiment for a looong long time

Depends on your definition of "production ready", but I would not yet use it in any mission critical applications. And with Perl 5.12 now out, I do not yet see a pressing reason to switch to Perl 6 yet.

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